Posted in Skate Journal on October 29th, 2014 by corpo
After work I was determined to not take a nap in hopes of sleeping better. I played football with Ollie for awhile and it was a total blast. It was a lot of running. Had a smoothie for dinner and left for Crisis where I would hang out for quite awhile. I had watched some good tech east coast skating during the day.
So I really felt like skating a granite ledge. But this is Colorado where there basically are no granite ledges. I lit up Safeway ledge with my car lights. Did some 50s both ways, but punched the wall in the cold once and was over it. Mainly because the rest of the area was too dark to do flatground and stuff. I went to the park. There were quite a few people there as usual. There was an older scooter kid with a helmet doing laps on the quartapotty/blue ledge so I lost my motivation to skate that. The black ledge had a crowd too. I tried a front 50 and shot out as it was so insanely waxed and fast. I would go on to do a few more, a few crooks. I was really uninspired and tired though. I tried to boardslide the tiny rail a few times and failed. I told myself if I didn’t get it the next try I would leave. I ended up leaving very frustrated. I should have taken a nap. I didn’t even sleep good. Ugh.
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Posted in Skate Journal on October 27th, 2014 by corpo
Yeah so I’ve skated a lot lately. I’ve had it in my head to go to this little park instead of the gym a few days a week. I don’t really expect to skate at my full level (ha as if), but just dork around and try stuff I might not ordinarily try since no one else is at the park. I was pretty darn tired after all the weekend fun. I continued the tradition of learning to ollie over stuff. Went over the flat bar a few times then the small side of an angled ledge. Got one bad treflip on flat. Tried ollieing into a bank, slammed and kind of hurt my achilles. So I headed back to work.
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Woke up late and had to hustle to slappy slalom. People were already going off. The hill seemed steeper then I remembered. I dorked around on the bottom for awhile just doing slappy crooks on one curb. I did a lot of standing when I would go to the top because there were so many people. I would eventually get a few runs that made my day. They were super tech. Boardslide a curb, slappy tail the wood box, boardslide the long pvc slider and then early grab off the launch ramp. Man that was fun. Did the same starting with slappy crook. May have also added a manual to it. Documenting what all other people were doing would be crazy. Dave had good slappy crooks and feebles. Matt did a bunch of tricks on the red curb on top of the box. Fuzz was cruising fast. After awhile Matt and I played a game of SKATE. Well, two games. The first one was pretty awesome and the second one took forever. Matt won both and I missed treflips every try except before the first game. Then we skated the slalom some more. Carleigh boardslide the long pvc. Rob was doing sick slappies on the first curb. Watching the huck fest over the car was really fun. This event ruled. I didn’t skate a ton, but the little I did felt great. Even just doing powerslides down the hill.
Then we went to the nearby DIY slab again for even more fun. John called out the trick up trick on trick off challenge on the little manual pad and we all bought in. It was so much harder then I thought it would be. It was like working out at the gym. Jump, jump, jump! Everyone would get a few. Adam got the kickflip up, on, down challenge. Matt rolled his ankle trying it. I couldn’t quite get it. Fuzz put down quite a few. Front 180 up, f/s halfcab on, front shove off. Ridiculous. Halfcab up, back 180 on, fakie flip off. First try. I got front 180 up, halfcab flip on, back 180 off. Rob had a couple with back 360 of cabs in them. So crazy. John took the cake with the best line with switch ollie up, on, down. None of which the tail hit at all or the wheels really left the ground. It was amazing. Fuzz and I skated the weird spine for a bit. He had a nice bluntslide transfer. I got a little boardslide transfer. Mike stopped by and boardslid it. I got a little front feeble transfer thing.
Then we dorked around on the manny pad some more. Fuzz did a bunch of around the world to manuals. John had the amazingness above. Carleigh worked on manuals. I early grabbed up it. Rob did no comply front shove manual. Crazy. What an awesome day.
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Posted in Skate Journal on October 26th, 2014 by corpo
I waited at my house for Lazer and Rob to arrive. I waited and waited so i went over to the school and dorked around on the curbs and stairs. The parking lot is so rough it makes actually trying grinds not fun. I did front tail stall shove out, front nose with a weird front 270 out, a few other regular stalls. Tried to ollie down the stairs a few times, but failed.
Rob showed and we picked up Lazer and headed to Rock Creek. I felt disoriented. I was almost getting warmed up on the ramp when Rob started a ledge session that birthday boy Lazer killed. Front nosegrind! He’s 30 now. He also had some really long crooks on the lower ledge. Rob had boardslide, crooks and almost halfcab boardslide. I did noseslide on the top part, crooks on the lower and could not get up to front 50 on tall which was oh so frustrating. We played a game of SKATE that Rob won. I was hyped to have gotten a halfcab one foot in it at least.
Then we went to a nearby ditch where on the very first run Rob lost his board into water. Doh. Lazer was soon to follow. I was starting to think I might escape, but nope. Into the drink. Lazer had some crazy roll ins. Chief showed up around the time my board was finally drying out. I got a line with back feeble, front pivot, kickflip on a bank. Chief killed some slides to fakie. I wish he could have met up sooner, but it got dark so we went to Crisis.
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Posted in Skate Journal on October 26th, 2014 by corpo
Went to Louisville to meet Rob and his buddy Chris. I got there first and cruised around the park. Took awhile to get back pivot on the bank to curb then joined Rob and Chris in the rink. Flatground started slow for me and landing anything other then kickflip wasn’t going well. That would change though. I didn’t get any long lines, but I did get a lot of my harder ones. Nollie varial flip, nollie treflip, f/s halfcab heel (landed not moving though so maybe it doesn’t really count), treflip. Felt good to skate just flatground. Rob was going for kickflip, b/s flip, halfcab flip. Got close. Had a bunch of back 360s. Chris has pop. Nollie shove was popped high. Saw some boosty halfcabs. We had a good time. Oh yeah, I was wearing the NB+s again. They felt infinitely better then the Etnies vulcs.
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Chief in town! So hyped. We headed out later in the evening on a warm evening. We lit up Stonehenge with my car lights. Chief has been recovering from knee surgery so he wanted a mellow spot. When we first got there he said he would be stoked to front 50 it. A whooping 5 minutes later he did front and back 50s easy. I rattled through quite a few of my staples. Got kick back 50, and kick back pivot. Tried for the flip trifecta with kick back tail too, but never got it. Chief threw some backside no complies then started trying it to back tail. He ended up getting quite a few. So sick. He would also get front 50 front 270 out all steezy.
Then we went to Red Curbs. That place rules. It didn’t take long for Chief to line out some long ones. He was having so much fun. He’s been skating for so long and he did his first front 50 front 180 out in a long time. He was doing shove its, long front 50s, back 180s off the curbs. All with patented Chief steeze. He was oozing stoke. Just having so much fun. It ruled. I don’t remember getting a whole lot myself. Then we skated the metal ledge part in the photo. We did a bunch of ride on grinds that were super fun. Chief was doing front 50, front 50 front 180 out, no comply front 5-0 and no comply front tail. I did back 50, back 50 up onto the top, back 50 up then back 180 off. Also some front 50s down it. I was trying those then treflips and didn’t any clean ones. Last trick was back 50 back 180 out. Skating with Chief ruled. Can’t wait to do it again.
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It was so nice out. I normally go to the gym around 10am at work for about 45 minutes, but it was just too nice out. I went to the nearby “rollerblade park” and skated for about 45 minutes. It was hot out. I had a new board after my idiocy last night. 8.1 this time. Felt good. I kept it pretty mellow. Mostly just skated slow trying flip tricks and the occasional ledge trick. At one point I had a halfcab flip, 360 flip (over 40 make) and then a nollie 360 flip (over 80 make). Ha. Was hyped. Was really missing vulc shoes though. They are just so much better for skating. Gotta do this instead of the gym more often, it was quite fun.
After work, a nap, laundry, I went to Crisis to meet up with our old guy crew for Denver Tuesdays. I was first so Fuzz and I sat and watched a video while disagreeing over everything except how rad Ty Bealls part is in the A-Street video. Ha. Dave and Rob showed and we drove to Cherry Creek to a parking garage called “Cherry Curbs”. Money. And it exceeded all expectations. We mostly skated this crazy manny pad with all kinds of weird angles that you can go into/out of grinds. I was the last on the manual to front 50 train. Actually, I’m not sure if I even did it without tilting. Rob did it with no comply and one foot as well. Fuzz got tech with heelflips up, switch back 180s, noseslides pop ups. Dave did front 5-0 to nose manual and manual body varial. Rob had such a steezy nose manual front 180 out. I was trying a quick foot combo of manual then nose manual to grind. Unfortunately we got the boot. At least we got awhile on it.
After some spot lurking we ended up here for a fun brief session under Fuzz’s headlights. Well, Fuzz’s truck’s headlights. Fuzz and Dave did some soft rocks/pivots. I did the standard kickflip to fakie and fakie flip. Then we all did early grabs off it and Fuzz and I did bonelesses.
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Then we ended up at this gem of a spot. It had this little slappy ledge, then a short long ledge after, then down the street a little another ledge with a gnar option. Dave did some ultra smooth switch slappies. Rob had slappy then nollie lipslide. I had slappy, bad crooks, then almost boardslide on the further ledge. Fuzz almost got to the gnar option with a front 50, but we got kicked out. Doh.
We ended up at the newish college spot downtown with the long marble manny pads. Everyone got manuals except me (nothing new there). It seemed like really fun place to skate. As I was just getting warmed up again it started raining.
So we went to the RTD garage. Fuzz and I didn’t think we would skate at all, but I guess Rob and Dave were shredding hard enough to get us off our tired butts. Rob was seriously ripping. Manuals at high speed, nose mannies, lots of energy hopping up/off the ledges. Back 50 around the corner to shove out. Whoa! Fuzz was on the high speed tip too with a long manual that opened a little emergency phone case. Pretty funny. He also had good fakie 50s with and without halfcabs out. I just did crooks. But I did a lot of them. Some long ones on the main ledge and a few through the corner which felt really neat. As usual Dave was the last man standing. He did all kinds of moves. Front 5-0 through the corner, boardslide to fakie then switch front noseslide. Front board to fakie. Crooks and ended it with a really good switch crooks.
Got home around 2:30 am stoked and feeling very alive. Thanks for the good time dudes.
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Posted in Skate Journal on October 21st, 2014 by corpo
Jake came over to my house and we left to bring India to ballet, then met up with Rob and Matt at Meta. Well, we parked on top of a hill and foot dragged our way down it as it was faster then either of us thought. My trucks felt incredibly loose and everything immediately felt off. We left Meta and Jake lead the charge to Wells Fargo. On the way there I bailed several ollies over cracks and even Matt bailed ollie’ing up a curb. Not a good sign. I did have one front tail on a parking block that was maybe my favorite thing I did all night. We went down to the red ledge where we got the boot before I landed a back 50, but after Matt had done front 50, back 50 and back 5-0. Jake got into front tail and Rob was in crooks. We pushed off, ended at the parking garage with the white ledge. Rob wanted to wallride the wall and as Jake predicted the parking attendant went nuts. I still did a back 50 on the white ledge. Ok actually that was the funnest thing I did all night. Then we headed towards a ledge spot, but were pleasantly surprised to find many new ledges that had just been put in. We quickly destroyed them as multiple concerned citizens would imply. But the reality is we put a few minor marks on some polished stones that aren’t gonna be destroyed by skateboarding you clueless idiots. I was happy to land a front noseslide to forward. Rob had a nice boardslide. Jake got into front tails. Matt started skating a curb cut all fast and blasting ollies. It was sick. Rob was in too popping all steezy. Jake joined with front 180 over a brick flat gap then f/s cab off the curb cut. Never quite got the curb cut, but got close. I was trying switch front 180 the brick flat gap then backside flip off the curb cut. At first it was possible then I forgot how to push switch and kept bailing while pushing. I snapped. So did my board. I felt like an idiot. I am. Will and Bob had joined us. Those kids rip. Then it was mostly wallrides for awhile on some barriers. Rob almost did wallride push. Bob did no comply jam over a barrier. Matt mostly did flip tricks and had a treflip ratio that more resembled my stats instead of his. Jake darn near boardslid the top of a jersey barrier. Street skating is hard.
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Rob, Dave, Simon and I went to this DIY spot in Denver. We had skated for awhile and were getting warmed up when some dudes came over and asked if we could skate in their video they were filming on the other side of the slab. Heck yeah! Ha. We skated in front of them while the remote controlled helicopter cam filmed us rolling by. It was funny. I had a good slam on a kickflip that I exaggerated and got some laughs. We skated a little wallride for a bit. Everyone got it but me. Rob hit a rock right before it though and slammed his shoulder bad. Doh. Back to the main area. Dave was doing cool no complies over a weird block. I got one on the side. Simon ollied it, nose bonked it, no complied it and did all the same (except the no comply) off the drop. Rob did his first no comply manual back 180 out. He would later get his second. Dave had a sick feeble transfer, front 5-0s on a curb, feeble fakie, switch 50. Simon rips. Manual pop shove out, switch manuals, manual front 180 then switch blunt the qp. Much more. I had a fun flip trick session on the tiny manny pad. Kickflip up, var flip down. Fakie bigspin up, horrible front shove off. Couldn’t get b/s flip or treflip off. Had a really fun front board revert transfer.
After quite a bit of driving we ended up here. I was fine with not skating it, but Fuller started ripping immediately with a nice boardslide. He added back tail, tail block and a few others. I took awhile to get a front tail. Then we all got tricks back to back. Dave back tail, me front pivot, Rob back smith. Stoked!
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Fun bank spot ender for an awesome day. @43shifty @fullertrron
Then we walked over a building to this mellow bank spot which ended up being a really fun ender. I got kickflip fakie, bigflip, f/s halfcab flip (over 40 make) and no comply shove fakie. Rob had some lofty f/s ollies, f/s flip, b/s flip, one foots, more. Dave did fakie flip, nollie 360 (seriously), and more tricks I can’t remember.
Epic day.
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